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Mary Good – Mary L. Good is the Donaghey University Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and serves as Dean for the College of Information Science and System Engineering. She is managing member for the Fund for Arkansas’ Future, LLC. (an investment fund for start-up and early stage companies), past President of

Dave received his BAEE from the U of A in 1959. He then worked at IBM as a Sales Representative. He also worked at IBM as a World Trade Senior Analyst. Dave has also worked as the Branch Manager of Saudi Arabia and Gulf States Union National Bank SVP and CIO. He has been Worthern

Robert (Bob) T. Harriell, Jr. was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. He worked to pay for his education at the University of Arkansas where he received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering as the Outstanding Senior and then completed his M.S.C.E degree in 1968. He was selected Who’s Who in American Colleges

A native of Ft. Smith, Don graduated from Northside High School in 1959, and from Arkansas Tech in 1963, with a BA in History. After serving in the US Army in Europe and Vietnam, he joined Systematics, Inc., in 1969, when the company was a one-year-old startup. For the next 26 years he led various

Jim actually had two successful careers in business. His first nineteen year career was with IBM in the Data Processing Division, serving in management positions in Little Rock, Springfield, Illinois, Topeka, Kansas, and St. Louis. As an added bonus, he got a chance to meet Mr. Sam Walton and work with him on the decision

After Joe’s graduation from the University of Arkansas in 1954, he spent 26 years from 1954-1981 with IBM. He held numerous positions with IBM, including: Vice-President of Sales for the Eastern third of the U.S., Vice-President of Industry Marketing, Vice-President of Market Planning, Vice-President of the General Products Division (Engineering and Manufacturing). From 1981-1989, He

William worked as a budget analyst for Texas Eastern Transmission from 1958-1960. He was an instructor in Accounting and Finance with the University of Texas at Austin from 1960-1962. He then became an Assistant Professor of Business Administration with Texas A&M University from 1962-1966 and as the Associate Professor of Management from 1966-1969. William then

Rodger Kline was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and graduated from Sylvan Hills High School in North Little Rock in 1961. He graduated the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1966 with an Electrical Engineering degree. During his senior year, Rodger was named the “Outstanding Graduate of the College of Engineering for 1966″ by the

George Knight was born in Hot Springs and grew up in Nashville and Little Rock, Arkansas. He attended the University of Arkansas where he was a Sigma Nu and received a degree in Civil Engineering. He entered the Army where he was a pilot, leaving the service as a Captain. After leaving the service, he

Doug grew up in Houston Texas. He attended Stephan F. Austin University in Nacogdoches Tx. He graduated in 1964 with a degree in history. Doug joined IBM in 1965 in Little Rock. He was there in marketing until 1978 when he went to the IBM Education Center San Jose California. There he taught distributed solutions

He is the Leica Chair in Geospatial Imaging and a University Professor in Geosciences, Anthropology and Environmental Dynamics at the University of Arkansas. He was the founding director of the University’s Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies and served in that role from 1991 to 2009. He was a founder and served on the Board of

David is the Associate Director of Computing Services on the University of Arkansas Fayetteville campus. His responsibilities include managing the Technical Services providing systems administration, database administration and security for the primary business and academic systems operated by the Computing Services department; managing the Operations division; and managing the Wide Area Networks. He is responsible

Charles D. Morgan is an investor in Bridgehampton Arbitrage LLC and an equity owner of Bridgehampton Capital Management LLC. Currently, he is chairman of the advisory board of BHCM and co-manager of investments. Prior to his involvement with Bridgehampton, Mr. Morgan retired as the CEO of Acxiom Corporation (a public information services company) in May

Bob O’Connell retired from IBM in July 1997 after 32 years. His career at IBM included multiple management assignments in field marketing and staff, marketing and implementing information systems. Bob received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Arkansas A&M College (now University of Arkansas, Monticello) and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of

Bob’s hometown is Waldron, Arkansas. Bob graduated from the University of Arkansas with a BSBA in 1956, and was the Senior Scholar in the College of Business Administration. He worked for IBM for 35 years as a Systems Engineer, Systems Engineering Manger and Marketing Manager in Little Rock. He maintained close ties with the University